(2013)
#DeathLife
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
Everyone sees god in a different light but I was born without eyes
There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like